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I was playing the Switch 2 demo last night for the next gen Dragonquest VII Reimagined, and it is freaking gorgeous in UHD. One of the...

Yeah, it’s a lot of money and I do have quite a backlog of JRPGs to get through - a whole bunch to play on the GBA at some point. I do...

Holmes was really not the starter set for AD&D, though, it was a cleanup of OD&D instead. Having read OD&D, AD&D and Moldvay in some...

Social media is certainly bad for people’s mental health. I’m not convinced the pre-social media internet was all that much better...

It really isn’t. It’s an aesthetic that is waning in popularity, because newer audiences find it uncomfortably reminiscent of real-life...

As @zakael19 suggests, more dice are always welcome. The nest thing about the d6 as implemented in the Cosmere rules is the feel-good...

Because more dice are fun! (I glossed over that part)

I think that is too rare a circumstance for my purposes here, but it is a cool idea for just general use

I personally don't like tying the complication-opportunity axis to the dice result total.

I have a fairly strong use case for the Switch 2, as there are 6 people in my house who use it...bit it is well worth the price...

Here is an example from he Stormlight Archives Handbook on how to handle the two dimensional Succes/Failure and Oppodtunoty/Complication...

Let's see, DH has Crit, Full Success, Success with Complication, Failure with Momentum, and Failure with Complication. It's got a...3%...

I'd lean into what D&D already does, and since ad/disad is frequent in 2024, use that --- but different. Hope is when you roll with...

It’s a twenty years teaching experience fact. I’m inclined to think the main job of a head teacher is covering up all the sh*t that...